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C. LEFKOWITZ CONTAINER March 23 1926. 1,577,738

Filed March '7, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR (ha/(e5 Zeffawi/z i ATTORNEY March 23,1926. 1,577,738

. v C- LEFKOWITZ CONTAINER Filed March '7, 1925 -2 Sheets-Sheet .2

INVENTOR Mar/es Ze/Mm'fz BY A r! ru n4 ATTORNEY Fatented Mar. 23, 1926.

warren STATES,

PATENT OF-Fl-CE. 1

CHARLES LEIEKOWITZ, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

CONTAINER.

, Application filed. March 7, 1925. SeriaINo. 13,673.

protect fragile articles, such as bottles, my

invention being especially adapted for protecting carboys. It is particularly desirable that carboys containing acid shall be" resiliently supported and retained in the con tainers in such a way as to resist shocks due to handling and transportation, to protect against cracking or breaking of the carboys and consequent leakage of the acid.

In carrying out my invention I provide a container having spaced vertically disposed flexible bars or dowels spaced from the walls of the container and" retained at the opposite end for engagement with the sides of a. carboy or bottle in annular relation to resiliently resist lateral thrusts of the latter, a further object beingto so arrange the container that the parts may be readilyset up for use and the charged ear boy or bottle may be inserted therein with: out danger of cracking or breaking the S21E16. j

My invention also comprises novel details of improvement that will be more fully hereinafter set forth and thenpointed out in the claims. I

Reference is to be had to the acconipanying drawings forming a part hereof, where- 1n Fig. 1 is a side elevation, partly in section on line 1,1,i11 F 3, illustrating my improved container;

Fig. 2 is a cross section, substantially on line 2, 2, in Fig. 3K Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on line 3, 3, in Fig. 1; 5. i i "I :t Fig. at is a detail plan view with the cover removed; w 9 1 Fig. 5 is a perspectivedetailof one ofthe upperretainers for the bars or dowels;

6 is a perspective view illustrating a modified form of resilient bar or'do'w'elj;

a modified retainer for the upperends of the bars or dowels, and

Fig. 9 is a side'view illustrating my improved boX or crate adapted to contain several carboys or bottles. i

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

The body of the container, such as a box or crate indicated at 1, may be of any suitable goods, such as carboys or bottles 2, the same being shown comprising side walls suitably secured together in rectangular form, as by nails, a strong bottom 3, and a removable cover whieh may be secured in placeon the sides of the container by means of nails, the cover having-an opening a for the. neck of the carboy or bottle.- The boards of the sides may be close together like a box or may be spaced apart like a crate. At 5 are or usual construction adapted for carrying vertically disposedflexible bars or dowels adapted to extend longitudinally along the outer side portion of the carboy or bottle, said bars or dowels being spaced and disposed in an annular series substantially concentric with the longitudinal axis of the carboy or bottle to retain the same. At 6 are'low'er retainersifor the bars or dowels 5, which retainers are located at the bottom of the container and rest thereon.

In the form shownin Figs. 1 to l the retainers 6 are: in the form of rectangular blocks or plates located at the corners of the container and provided with openings or holes at 7 arranged iii-annular relation to receive the lower ends of the bars or dowels 5 for retaining the latter, which may rest against the bottom of the container, the position of the openings or holes 7 being suclr that the inner edges of the bars or dowels bear against the outor side of the carboy or bottle when the latteris inserted in the container. 111 the form shown in Figs. .1 to 4: the retainers 6 at, the corners of the container extend under vertical cornercleats 8 which are nailed to the sides of the container and do not extend fullyto the bottom nor torthe cover, whereby said blocks are retained in place-atlthe bottom corners of the contain er. lfipreferred the cleatsS may extend to the bottom ofthe container andthe retainersi 6 may 1 have -the corresponding corners out out at 6?, as illustratedjinuFig. 7, to mateh against the corresponding cleats. Also, instead of, having separateblocks 6 for each corner 'atthe bottom of the container such blocks may be made in'two pieces, as illust 'ated in Fig. 7, or in a single piece if preferred At the upper corners of the container are retainers 9 to retain the upper end of the bars or dowels 5, which retainers are adapted to lit in the corners of the'container and have openings 10 to receive theupper ends of the bars or dowels. As illustrated in Figs. at, 5, and 8 the inner edges of the retainers 9, spaced from the rectangular corners'at 9, are curred in a circle at 9, substantially correspondingto the radius of the openings 7 and the periphery'of the carboy or bottle, and the "openings 10 are so located in a circle that their inner portions open' through the'curved surface 9- to admit the upper ends of the bars or dowels By preference-the openings '10 are slightly more than a half circle,- inthe nature of-recesses,'so that when the bars 5 are pushed laterallyfinto said openings saidbars will be retained by frictional gripping olthematerial of the retainers 9 at theedges of the openings 10. Instead of having-four separate retainers 9 in the corners of the container said retainers may be made in two pieces, as illustrated in Fig. 8, or in a single 'pieeeif pretererd, provided with a central opening'll around the margin of which opening'the openings or recesses 10 are disposed. The retainers -9 rest upon the tops of the cleats 8. y

The parts described -1nay bereadily assembled by placing the retainers 6 at the lower corners of thecontaineiyfresting upon the bottom, inserting the lowerends of the bars or dowels in the openings 7 of said retaine s, inserting the retainers 9 to rest upon tie cleats 8, and pushing the bars or dowel 5 at their upper ends side 'vise 'into the openings 10, andjthen insertingtliecar boy or bottle between the vertically disposed bars or dowels. Since the'bars or dowels 5' extend vertically in -the container and along the vertical outer surface of the carboy or bottle fthe 'latter-is-niaintained in an'ereet' position and against lateral displacement,. with 1 lateral thrusts i of the bottle and box' relatively "one' to another, resisted resiliently by the bars or dowels serving to resist fracturingof the Q carboy or bottle since the bars' 'or dm velsmay bend readily "between theretainers 6 and 9. iVhe'n-tlie carboycr bottle is in 'the container and bears againstthebar's 4 or dowels 5 the l latter will n1aiirtain' the *reminers 6 and 9" from inward" displacement so that they will remain in 7 position be tween tlie'upp'er ends" of the clea'ts 8, thereby avoiding nailing the retainers to the; container." I v p p V ln l 'order tOTre'siliently eup'pertend e; sis-t they rghet fuie canoyeeteae in-the' container'l provide resilient supports adjacent to the bottom 3 and spaced therefrom, shown in the form of bars or dowels 12, 13, arranged in series, one series extending transversely with respect to the other, as indicated in Fig. 3. At opposite ends of the bars or dowels 12 are blocks 14: resting. on the bottom of the container and they may be nailed thereto, which blocks have'recesses 15 in their upperedges in'whichthe'adjacent ends of the barsor dowels 12 are located,'-which recesses are preferably slightly more than a halt circle so that the bars or dowels 12 may be pushed thereinto be retained frictionally. Blocks 16 are also located at opposite endsof the-bars or dowels '13 and rest upon the bottom of thecontainer, at right angles to theblocks 1%, the'blocks16 being provided on theirnppper surfaces with recesses '17 -to receive the ends of the bars or dowels "13' in manner described with respect to the recesses '15. The blocks 16' extend higher from bottom 3 than the blocks 1st so that the bars or dowels 1?) are spaced above thebars or-dowelslQ. Said bars or dowels-are flexible toresiliently support' the carboy or moms in such a manner that if the weight of the charged carboy or bottle is too great forthebars or dowels 12 they will bend to encounter the bars or dowels 13 which will resist the weight-resiliently.- Insuch a manner the carboy or bottle will be supported resilient ly to resi'stshooks due to droppingot the container.

The bars or dowels 5, 12' and 13 may be of wood in suitable cross section'to resiliently resist lateral thrusts of the carboy or bottle, and each may be ina single piece, as illus trated in Figs. 3 and 4:. If preferred'the bars or dowels may comprise two or more coinplemental pieces, as shown 'in Fig. 6, which will provide sufiicient strength with desired resiliency.

Vhile the container may be'arranged with a single annular row of bars or dowels 5 to receive a single carboy or bottle it will be understood that the container may be provided with-any desired number of sueh an nular series of bars or dowels, spaced apart, 7

to accommodate several carboys or bottles, as illustrated in Fig. 9.

My? improvement is relatively cheap. to manufacture and may be shippedj'with. the parts I more or less loose within the body or container ready to be assembled for use, and will aiford meansior safe=st'orag.e;andtransportation forgoods,"whetheri'they be can boys or bottlesor otherfragile articles' requiring protection-F Y against shocks-and j are during transportation and handling;

l-laving new described inyi'in'ventioi r. what I claim is:-

e tate-ne p 1te intestate comprising blocks located in the corners at the bottom thereof, said retainers having annularly disposed openings, retainers comprising blocks located in the corners at the top of the container provided With annularly disposed openings, and bars vertically disposed Within the container and having their ends located in the corresponding openings of the retainers.

2. A container as set forth in claim 1, in which the openings in the top retainers open through an adjacent inner edge of each retainer.

3. A container having retainers located adjacent the lower corners thereof and provided With spaced annularly disposed openings, retainers located against the upper corners of the container and having curved inner edges, the last named retainers having annularly disposed openings opening through the corresponding edges, and resilient bars having their ends located in the openings of said retainers.

l. A container having cleats at its corners, said cleats terminating at a distance from the top of the coi'itainer, retainers adjacent the bottom corners of the container provided with spaced openings, retainers adjacent the upper corners of the container having their inner portions resting on said cleats, said upper retainers having openings opposing the openings of the lower retainers, and resilient bars having their ends located in said upper and lower opposing openings.

5. A container provided with cleats at its corners spaced from the bottom and top thereof, retainers at the bottom of the container having a portion in the corners of the container extending under the cleats and 7 provided with means to retainhars, retainers adjacent the top of the container having portions in the corners of the container extending over the cleats. and provided with means to retain bars, and spaced bars extending longitudinally within the container and connected to said retainers.

6. A container provided with retainers comprising blocks located at the lower corne of the container adjacent the bottom, said blocks having annularly disposed 0penings, retainers comprising blocks located at the corners adjacent the top of the container and having innercurved edges provided with openings opening through said edges, said openings being greater than a semicircle, and bars having their lower ends in the first named openings and their upper ends in the openings of the upper retainers and gripped frictionally by said retainers in said openings.

CHAR-LES LEFKOWITZ. 

